Timed Prelims papers

A whole Prelimspaper, scoredlike UPSC.

Sit any of 32 UPSC Prelims papers, GS and CSAT, from 2011, in two hours. It is scored the way UPSC scores it, with a third of the marks off for each wrong answer, then you go through every question.

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The 2024 GS Paper I running: question 4 of 100 with its options, a Mark for review button, 1 hour 59 minutes left, and the grid of all 100 questions showing answered and marked ones.

Choose

Any paper,GS or CSAT.

Pick a year and a paper. Each card says how many questions UPSC dropped and whether the key is UPSC’s final one. Your past attempts and your best score sit above them.

  • 100 questions in GS, 80 in CSAT, 2 hours each.
  • Questions UPSC dropped are not counted.
  • Your attempts, with the score of each.
My tests: an attempt at the 2022 paper, and the full GS Paper I papers by year, each with its questions, dropped questions, and Sit this paper.

Review

Your score, thenevery question.

Your score out of 200, how many right, wrong and blank, and what the wrong ones cost. Then every question with your answer, UPSC’s answer and why, filtered to the wrong ones, the blanks or those you marked for review.

  • 2 marks a right answer in GS, 2.5 in CSAT.
  • A third of that off for each wrong one; a blank costs nothing.
  • CSAT: whether you cleared 33%.
The result of the 2022 paper: -1.35 out of 200, 1 right, 5 wrong, 93 left blank, the 3.37 marks lost to penalties, and the first question reviewed with UPSC's answer.

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Two hours,on the clock.

The clock runs on our side, so it keeps time even if you close the tab.

  • 2 hours

    It submits itself when time is up.

  • Keys

    A to D to answer, M to mark for review, arrows to move.

  • Any order

    Jump to any question from the grid; marked ones stand out.

  • Saved

    Every 30 seconds, and kept in the browser if you go offline.

Free with your account, as many papers as you like.

Before the next paper

See what UPSC asks more of.

How many questions each subject gets, year by year, and which are coming up more lately.

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Two hours.Then every answer.

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